Helen Keller Quotes

All that we love deeply becomes part of us.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The highest result of education is tolerance

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.

So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

Your success and happiness lie in you.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into light.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each others welfare, social justice can never be attained.

While they were saying it couldn't be done, it was done.

Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart.

The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Look the world straight in the eye.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

The richness of the human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

What is true happiness? It's not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.

You are amazed at all the things you know which are not on the examination paper.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

A man must understand evil and be acquainted with sorrow before he can write himself an optimist and expect others to believe that he has reason for the faith that is in him.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

But there is not space to mention all my friends and indeed there are things about them hidden behind the wings of the cherubim, things to sacred to set forth in cold print.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.